Email chain request for response

 Dear Anne-Marie Norio,

With respect, I am sorry that you dismiss the theft and removal of my recording as trivial.

By stealing and removing my recording the Region has not complied with the terms of the settlement!

Besides, I only asked that you apprise the council of the situation.

Perhaps you should refer to the September 29, 2023 message to Sandra Fluellon, which spells out my contention.

Its coming up to 6 years of bureaucratic bullying and it must stop! For the reason stated, I will inform council myself.

Preston Haskell

From: Norio, Ann-Marie <Ann-Marie.Norio@niagararegion.ca>

Sent: November 7, 2023 12:59 PM
To: phaskell38@gmail.com
Subject: FW: Unlawful removal of recording

 

Good afternoon Mr. Haskell,

 Further to the email sent from Mr. Cruickshank, as the Region has fully complied with the terms of the settlement, no further action regarding this matter will be taken.

 Thank you

 Ann-Marie

 Ann-Marie Norio, BA, Dipl. M.A., CMM III

Regional Clerk

Phone: 905-980-6000 ext 3220

 From: PF-Mailbox-01 <PF-Mailbox-01@niagararegion.ca>

Sent: Monday, November 06, 2023 10:41 AM
To: Norio, Ann-Marie <Ann-Marie.Norio@niagararegion.ca>; Basic, Azra <Azra.Basic@niagararegion.ca>; Kramer, Gema <Gema.Kramer@niagararegion.ca>
Subject: FW: Unlawful removal of recording

 

 

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From: phaskell38@gmail.com
Sent: Monday, 06 November 2023 10:41:20 (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
To: Clerks; phaskell38@gmail.com
Subject: RE: Unlawful removal of recording

Dear Regional Clerk,

Sent for your information.

Please apprise the Regional Councillors.

I await your response.

Preston Haskell

 

From: phaskell38@gmail.com <phaskell38@gmail.com>
Sent: October 26, 2023 10:53 AM
To: 'Cruickshank, Mickey' <mickey.cruickshank@niagararegion.ca>; phaskell38@gmail.com
Subject: RE: Unlawful removal of recording

 Mr Cruickshank,

First you stole the recording by removing and keeping my recording then you returned the recording only aster I complained. Now you turn out to be a liar by falsely claiming that the Recorder was returned with my portion of the recording intact.

Does the Regional Clerk know about this? Should the Regional Councillors be apprised of this?

You have broken the non-disclosure agreement and it is now newsworthy.

I reached out to Sandra Fluellon because I have no faith in your fidelity.

I still await response from Fluellon.

Preston Haskell

 From: Cruickshank, Mickey <mickey.cruickshank@niagararegion.ca>

Sent: October 26, 2023 9:18 AM
To: phaskell38@gmail.com
Cc: Fluellon, Sandra <Sandra.Fluellon@niagararegion.ca>
Subject: RE: Unlawful removal of recording

 

Mr. Haskell,

 As per the confidential terms of settlement, the recording device was returned to you with the recording intact (minus the closed session portion).  Additionally, as you apparently reported to counsel that you were unable to access the recording, a courtesy second copy of the recording was provided to your counsel as he requested.  While you advise that you are incapable of transferring the copy of the recording provided to your counsel onto your device, I cannot give you advice in this regard.

 The Region has fully complied with the terms of the settlement. 

 Sincerely,

 Mickey Cruickshank

Legal Counsel

 The Regional Municipality of Niagara

Corporate Services, Legal Division

1815 Sir Isaac Brock Way, P.O. Box 1042

Thorold, ON  L2V 4T7

Tel: 905-980-6000 ext. 3472

Fax: 905-685-7931

www.niagararegion.ca

 

 

From: phaskell38@gmail.com <phaskell38@gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 10:31 AM
To: phaskell38@gmail.com; Fluellon, Sandra <Sandra.Fluellon@niagararegion.ca>
Subject: RE: Unlawful removal of recording

 

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Dear Sandra Fluellon,

I am still waiting for your reply.

Preston Haskell

 

From: phaskell38@gmail.com <phaskell38@gmail.com>
Sent: September 29, 2023 9:52 AM
To: sandra.fluellon@niagararegion.ca; phaskell38@gmail.com
Subject: Unlawful removal of recording

 

Dear Sandra Fluellon,

The unlawful removal of my recording from my SONY recording device has nothing to do with the agreed confidential clause.

The agreement was that the in-camera portion of the recording was to be deleted.

There was no agreement that the rest of my recording would also be deleted.

I own the recording and I alone have the say in how it will be stored or saved.

It is not for anyone else to decide how my recording should be stored of saved.

My recording was stolen from me and only offered to be returned AFTER I complained.

I have the right to have my part of the original recording to be permanently left on my recording device.

The said recording device is to be stored intact with my original recording included as is my right.

Supplying me with a digital copy, after the fact and only after my complaint, will not suffice and is inappropriate.

Placing the original recoding back on my recording device is beyond my capabilities.

Therefore, I will have to seek professional help to do so.

Re-recording is not a satisfactory solution.

I wait for your appropriate response and solution

Respectfully,

Preston Haskell

 

LGBTQ to hold sway over procurement?

What do you get when you watch the St. Catharines City Council in action?

Well, on the October 30, 2023 video of Council you got to suffer through 2 hours of the Niagara Regional government's attempt to impose a very expensive social component to our City's procurement process! Certainly no surprise this added expense is emanating from the Prince of 'Tax & Spend'!

The false premise for this abomination was blaming the absurd Burgoyne Bridge Fiasco for the doubling of the cost.

Question: Would the added expense* of having 'Social Entities' involved in procurement have prevented our being scammed via the Burgoyne Bridge fiasco?

*Expense of $14K per year to The City of St. Catharines Alone  (Times ALL Communities= $millions) to be paid to the following Social entities for 'THEIR' privilege to hold sway over 'OUR' procurement policy.

Perhaps this very expensive effort is to have LGBTQ holding some sway into the procurement policy of our community and all communities?

Really?

Is that because the LGBTQ has worked so well in our education system? 

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Where the Wild Goose Goes

 Is anybody watching the threat emanating from the 'Empire Builders' of St. Catharines City Government?

Well, in case you missed it, the empire builders are making their case that their empire needs $20 Million a year to bring their empire up to their desired standards!

According to their own formula $20 Million equates to a 17% Property tax increase!

So just bend over and touch your toes because they're going to show you 'Where the Wild Goose Goes'!

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St. Catharines, once 'the shining city on the hill' now reduced to surviving on service industry predicated on allowing their once thriving and prosperity producing industries to slip away without so much as a whimper!.

Prosperity producing industries such as: Anthes eastern furnace, Eaton Yale and Towne tow motors, Ferranti Packard Electric, General Motors, Hayes Dana, Dominion Chain, Cunningham Foundry, Columbus McKinnon, etc., etc. plus the supporting industries!

St. Catharines won't be the first municipality to try to tax its way to a prosperous set of sparkling city venues at the expense of its suffering neighborhoods! Examples available!

Now we have a new shining example of myopic governments paying $Millions to bribe prosperity producing industries to come to the rescue of financially failing communities.

How could this happen? How did this happen?

It happened when our government leaders became a cabal of service industry members lacking appreciation of the necessary origin of prosperity producing entities because if society doesn't Farm it, Fish it, Manufacture it, Mine it in order to bring in the wealth needed to sustain everything we desire then unprotected property owners will suffer!

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Soothing the Savage Beast!

 What was the purpose of having an October 18, 2023 planning meeting of St. Catharines City Council way down at the Neil Campbell Rowing Center on the Henley Rowing Coarse away from prying eyes of the public?

We say 'Prying eyes of the public' because this Special Meeting was also NOT Televised!

It took two days for 'News Alert Niagara' to find out when, where and at what time this special meeting was to take place! ..

The Convener, Erin O'Hoski who did an admirable job directing the meeting actually introduced herself and inquired who I was. Erin was the only one to even acknowledge I was in the room! Perhaps by not assimilating into their common position, I've worn out my welcome.

As the planning session proceeded there were a couple of slides of interest. One slide showed an increase in government mandated tax of over $10Million 68% to 77%. 

Was there ever an outrage from our civic leaders? Did they ever try to protect their constituents from endless 'Empire Building' or do they just use the
higher level of government mandates as their go to excuse? 

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Let's see what this strategy looks like when it sees the light of day.

Unfortunately it is 'THEY' who determine 'Taxpayer affordability'!

Another slide illustrated the cost value of each percent increase in tax!

They banter jargon comparing other communities doing better or worse than St. Catharines without even mentioning the other communities by name.

News Alert Niagara would like to name one.

Ajax is not only a similar size as St. Catharines, it is also right across and on the shore of our Lake Ontario! As a matter fact there are no other communities mired in as much over-governess as St. Catharines mired in the Region of Niagara!

St. Catharines, once the shining city on the hill now reduced surviving on service industry predicated on allowing their once thriving and prosperity producing industries to slip away without so much as a whimper!

Its as though Adam Smith and his 'Wealth of Nations' never existed!

So, to answer our first question, the whole exorcise dubbed 'planning session' was nothing more than a squalid attempt to 'Sooth the Savage Beast'; the Savage Beast being the perceived growing threat emanating from some councilors who are becoming aware that double digit property tax increases are unsustainable. 

 Strategic Plan Refresh Project - OCT2023.pdf

Setting Taxpayers up for catastrophic failure!

Standard Reporter Karena Walter (Not present at the planning meeting) somehow managed to write the following diatribe, on behalf of the city, under the deceptive title:

St. Catharines asset conditions not a good news story

2023 Assessment Management Plan condition ratings

City non-core assets were rated based on replacement value

Buildings and facilities: 71% in good to very good condition, 15% in poor to very poor condition

Corporate fleet: 40% in good to very good condition, 48% in poor to very poor condition

Cultural assets: 59% in good to very good condition, 29% in poor to very poor condition

Fire services: 42% in good to very good condition, 48% in poor to very poor condition

Information Technology: 27% in good to very good condition, 51% in poor to very poor condition

Natural assets: 40% in good to very good condition, 12% in poor to very poor condition

Parking services: 49% in good to very good condition, 26% in poor to very poor condition

Parks: 40% in good to very good condition, 43% in poor to very poor condition

Source: GM BluePlan Engineering Inc. 

Tax System Broken 9/25/23

Tuning in to the September 25, 2023 St. Catharines City Council meeting to get first hand information on our broken tax system we first had to endure a (22) minute time killing monologue from Mayor Siscoe, most of which the world could easily live without.

Following the usual pontificating of dubious pandering for more taxpayer funding the council finally turned its attention to the broken tax system very late in the evening when viewers had ceased paying attention or have given up altogether.

How do we know that the Tax System is broken?

We know because the councilors said so!

Mayor Siscoe claimed that he has been saying the Tax System is broken ever since he headed up the Tax Committee. A Tax Increase of 10.5% tells us exactly what he and his comrades did to fix our broken Tax System.

Astounding! Listening to Council sounded like a child explaining that the smashed item shattered on the floor as "It Fell"!

What the clever councilors failed to address is how the Tax System became broken, when the Tax System became broken and who broke our Tax System? 

It Gets Worse!

During the non-productive debate on what can be done with our 'broken tax system' we had some councilors stating emphatically that nothing can be done including Councilor Ratzlaff actually calling the motion for starting tax debates from Zero increase as moved by Kushner and Garcia 'cowardly'. 

To call anyone professing their desire to come to terms with our broken tax system 'cowardly' clearly illustrates their dearth of historical knowledge such as the brilliant work of Adam Smith titled 'The Wealth of Nations' or even the gist of Oswald Spengler's massive work 'Decline of the West'. 

Perhaps they could take a few minutes to google Sir Winston Churchill's take on 'Trying to create prosperity by raising taxes'. Ayn Rand's book titled 'Atlas Shrugged' is a valuable source regarding the cost of bloated governance.

But fear not friends, our clever councilors have the opportunity to address the (eight hundred pound gorilla) in the room at their special meeting to be held October 18, 2023. 

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What at night seems so exciting is uninviting in the light!

The City of St. Catharines is not satisfied with their bylaw enforcement fine penalties jumping from $91,000 in 2018 to $432,000 so far this year!

The St. Catharines Regime is so unhappy with 450% jump in 'fine revenue' that they are illegally removing what little protection Citizens have from our Court system leaving us at the mercy of the desperate regime!

It means that the regime can do whatever it wants to you because their assessment leaves you guilty until you prove otherwise and to prove your innocence you will have to retain a lawyer and sue the city to get redress! 

A very onerous proposition! 

In the light of day this reversal of fortune is very 'uninviting' and drives another nail in the demise of freedom. 

The dots started to connect predicated on the St. Catharines Mayor Siscoe joining the cacophony of Regional Council voices calling for control on free speech.

It was also disconcerting to witness Mayor Siscoe supporting Fort Erie Mayor Redekop's bid to piggyback on the gender war as an excuse to expand his tyranny over the rest of Niagara's Citizens. 

Mayor and Regional Councilor Siscoe failed in his duty to even inquire into very serious criminal code violations perpetrated by the Regional Regime!

Perhaps 'News Alert Niagara' has become too sensitive to the machinations of government because of past and current abuses. As an example we share this blue link to the most disgusting story of municipal abuse we have ever covered! 

'News Alert Niagara' can only try to alert the population even in the face constant municipal abuse and in the lack of factual information denied by the regime's so-called 'Citizens First'! 

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Eleven more St. Catharines bylaws subject to new fine system (stcatharinesstandard.ca) 

OH DARN !

Some of the poor little darlings of our bloated Niagara Regional Council are feeling abused to the point where they are now considering a "Citizens Code of Conduct" in a putrid effort to broadly curtail 'Freedom of Speech' predicated on the sins of a few!

Regional Councilor Laura Ip says she didn't sign up for abuse from members of society with cartoons and sexual comments.

Question: Is Councilor Ip the only female councilor being so harassed? Why?

Is this the Laura Ip that also sits on the so-called civilian oversight committee of the NRPSB and says nothing about actual and real crime and corruption as silently condoned by her and her ilk of fellow Regional Councilors! 

Regional Councilor Ip should count her blessings that she is not Premier or Prime Minister.

Then we hear from the lousy tyrant of Fort Erie, Wayne Redekop who wants control over the public so he can abuse them the way he abuses his Fort Erie Constituents.

Sadly, there are always disgusting authoritarian savages ready to cover their own asses by subjugating Citizen's freedom!

Perhaps the concerned Regional Councilors should consider adding to their 'Citizen Code of Conduct' a Councillor 'Code of Conduct' because it's the conduct of some councillors that causes the problem in the first place.

While Ezra Levant of Rebel News discussed Rebel News' victory over Trudeau's Minister Steven Guilbeault, who was ordered by the Court to unblock Ezra on Twitter and pay Rebel News $20,000, our Niagara Regime actually broke the law by illegally interfering with emails sent to our elected officials from their constituents.

News Alert Niagara has made it possible for anyone, including our Regional Councilors, to peruse story after story of the Regional Regime's conduct of  Deceit, Lies, Perjury, Theft, Criminal Conspiracy, Crime & Corruption. 

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